• Headpiece with geometric and foliate decoration and decorated initial 'P'., New Testament (ff. 27-293)

Decorated lines, large initials and rubrics in gold, now mostly lost and showing the red preparation. New Testament (ff. 27-293) John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722), chaplain of the Levant Company in Constantinople, 1670-1676, and later Master of Christ's College,

• Miniature of the Crucifixion flanked by Mary and John holding a book, with Henry the Lion and Matilda below holding scrolls, and personifications of the sun and moon above., Psalter, fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion')

flanked by Mary and John holding a book, with Henry the Lion and Matilda below holding scrolls, and personifications of the sun and moon above. This manuscript is 381, article 1. Article 2 (kept separately) contains the Sarum Breviary, imperfect,

• Historiated initial 'R'(ege) with a seated scribe labelled 'OSBEARNVS', a censing monk, animals, and animal heads, at the beginning of Osbern's Life of St Dunstan., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

Historiated initial 'R'(ege) with a seated scribe labelled 'OSBEARNVS', a censing monk, animals, and animal heads, at the beginning of Osbern's Life of St Dunstan. 2 historiated initials in colours (ff. 1, 2). Small simple initials in red, green,

• Decorated initial 'D'(iximus) at the beginning of Book II of Osbern's LIfe of St Dunstan; the script perhaps by two scribes., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

Decorated initial 'D'(iximus) at the beginning of Book II of Osbern's LIfe of St Dunstan; the script perhaps by two scribes. 2 historiated initials in colours (ff. 1, 2). Small simple initials in red, green, or blue. Epistola de

• Initial 'I'(n) in the form of a dragon, and 'B'(eatus) with two bishops with crosiers, the lower with a closed book;and the ownership inscription: 'Liber Sancte Trinitatis de Kirkham' in the lower margin., Lections for feasts of saints, including Vita Gregorii, the life of St Augustine; Nativitate St Maria, Vita Edwardi regis (one chapter), and other texts

Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Zoomorphic and historiated initials John the Deacon, Possidius and others England, N.

• initial 'P'(etisa) and three pairs of busts men and women, labelled Ioachim and Anna, Ioseph and Sancte Maria, and Alpheus and [Mary] Cleophe., Lections for feasts of saints, including Vita Gregorii, the life of St Augustine; Nativitate St Maria, Vita Edwardi regis (one chapter), and other texts

/ ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1v).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Decorated initial and marginal drawings John the Deacon, Possidius and others England, N.

• Miniature of the Crucifixion flanked by Mary and John holding a book, with Henry the Lion and Matilda below holding scrolls, and personifications of the sun and moon above., Psalter, fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion')

flanked by Mary and John holding a book, with Henry the Lion and Matilda below holding scrolls, and personifications of the sun and moon above. This manuscript is 381, article 1. Article 2 (kept separately) contains the Sarum Breviary, imperfect,

• Calendar page for March, including the translation of Kyneburga, Kyneswitha, and Tibba (6 March), Calendar (January to August only) and computistical table

added to the calendar.? A member of the Dygne family: inscribed 'Of yower charyte pray for the sowlys of Wylliam, John, Recharde & Elizabeth Dygne …' (f. 180v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl

• Calendar page for April, including the feast of Guthlac (d. 714), hermit of Crowland, in green ink on 11 April, and his octave on 18 April., Calendar (January to August only) and computistical table

added to the calendar.? A member of the Dygne family: inscribed 'Of yower charyte pray for the sowlys of Wylliam, John, Recharde & Elizabeth Dygne …' (f. 180v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl

• Initial 'B' and full border., Pattern, sketch, or model book

15th-century: 'Young' and monogram 'I H' with effaced text (f. 29v). Inscribed several names, 16th-century: 'William Brome' (f. 3), 'Johannes', 'John & framyng', 'Richarde' (f. 4), 'Richardus Bowle' (ff. 8, 26v, 29), 'Thomas / Henry / William / Johannes /

• Design for an initial and border, with a bird., Pattern, sketch, or model book

15th-century: 'Young' and monogram 'I H' with effaced text (f. 29v). Inscribed several names, 16th-century: 'William Brome' (f. 3), 'Johannes', 'John & framyng', 'Richarde' (f. 4), 'Richardus Bowle' (ff. 8, 26v, 29), 'Thomas / Henry / William / Johannes /

• Design for an initial and border., Pattern, sketch, or model book

15th-century: 'Young' and monogram 'I H' with effaced text (f. 29v). Inscribed several names, 16th-century: 'William Brome' (f. 3), 'Johannes', 'John & framyng', 'Richarde' (f. 4), 'Richardus Bowle' (ff. 8, 26v, 29), 'Thomas / Henry / William / Johannes /

• Design for an initial and border., Pattern, sketch, or model book

15th-century: 'Young' and monogram 'I H' with effaced text (f. 29v). Inscribed several names, 16th-century: 'William Brome' (f. 3), 'Johannes', 'John & framyng', 'Richarde' (f. 4), 'Richardus Bowle' (ff. 8, 26v, 29), 'Thomas / Henry / William / Johannes /

• Designs for initials of the letters A-F., Pattern, sketch, or model book

15th-century: 'Young' and monogram 'I H' with effaced text (f. 29v). Inscribed several names, 16th-century: 'William Brome' (f. 3), 'Johannes', 'John & framyng', 'Richarde' (f. 4), 'Richardus Bowle' (ff. 8, 26v, 29), 'Thomas / Henry / William / Johannes /

• Designs for initials (letters G-M)., Pattern, sketch, or model book

15th-century: 'Young' and monogram 'I H' with effaced text (f. 29v). Inscribed several names, 16th-century: 'William Brome' (f. 3), 'Johannes', 'John & framyng', 'Richarde' (f. 4), 'Richardus Bowle' (ff. 8, 26v, 29), 'Thomas / Henry / William / Johannes /

• Designs for anthropomorphic initials (letters K-P)., Pattern, sketch, or model book

15th-century: 'Young' and monogram 'I H' with effaced text (f. 29v). Inscribed several names, 16th-century: 'William Brome' (f. 3), 'Johannes', 'John & framyng', 'Richarde' (f. 4), 'Richardus Bowle' (ff. 8, 26v, 29), 'Thomas / Henry / William / Johannes /

• Designs for initials (letters Q-Y)., Pattern, sketch, or model book

15th-century: 'Young' and monogram 'I H' with effaced text (f. 29v). Inscribed several names, 16th-century: 'William Brome' (f. 3), 'Johannes', 'John & framyng', 'Richarde' (f. 4), 'Richardus Bowle' (ff. 8, 26v, 29), 'Thomas / Henry / William / Johannes /

• Illuminated initial 'M'(arcus) at the beginning of the prologue to Mark., Glossed Gospel of Mark

the Abbey of Chck in Essex which was dedicated to S. Osith (f. 1).William Smarte: above-cited ownership inscription (f. 100v).? John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), Baron Somers, lawyer and politician: 1738 note written by James West that it once

• Miniature of Dunstan as a bishop, writing a commentary of the Rule of Saint Benedict, with an inscription 'S[an]c[tu]s Dunstanus'., Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti

Miniature of Dunstan as a bishop, writing a commentary of the Rule of Saint Benedict, with an inscription 'S[an]c[tu]s Dunstanus'. Includes Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti of Smaragdus, abbot of St Mihiel (d. c. 830).The prefatory miniature of Dunstan

• Detail of a decorated initial 'O'(bsculta), with foliate motifs, at the beginning of the preface and the text., Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti

Detail of a decorated initial 'O'(bsculta), with foliate motifs, at the beginning of the preface and the text. Includes Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti of Smaragdus, abbot of St Mihiel (d. c. 830).The prefatory miniature of Dunstan (f. 2)